You people need to realize something, as long as Obama is living in the WH he will do nothing that will offend his Muslim brothers. Our country means nothing to him except as a means of financing the Muslim terrorist. It's time everyone wakes up and sees the traitor for what he REALLY is.

According to records from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra) the case was resolved in 2003 when an arbitration panel found that Sergeant Bales had "engaged in fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, churning, unauthorised trading and unsuitable investments". The arbitrator ordered payment of $US637,000 in compensation, plus interest, $US637,000 in punitive damages and $US216,500 in legal fees. With interest the total is now $US1.5 million. The arbitrator described Bales's conduct as "fraudulent and malicious" and, when the fines were not paid, he was suspended from the industry.

They're all about trying a soldier for killing some afghanies but how about trying a commander in chief for basically letting taliban kill four Americans at the embassy in Benghazi That is Treason in its highest form

Mitt Romney's meandering statements and plain falsehoods about the auto industry finally caught up to him earlier this week when he told a big whopper that cannot be squared with the truth during a speech in Defiance, Ohio. He said that Jeep, the American icon and great Toledo institution, "is thinking of moving all production to China."

Everyone paying attention to the election called him on it. Chrysler Group LLC has set the record straight, stating it has no intention of shifting production of its Jeep models out of North America.

Defiance is an Ohio auto town whose most important employer is the General Motors (GM) plant that was saved by President Barack Obama. Voters there recognize that Romney's claim is just plain foolish, because Jeep is expanding, not contracting -- it's been all over the Ohio press for a year.

Though the fact-checkers and the media unanimously shot down Romney's claims, no one was more stunned at the sheer craziness of Romney's statement than the workers at the Jeep factory, just down the road from Defiance. Chrysler is investing $500 million, adding 1,100 jobs and will actually add new models to one of the Jeep plants in Toledo.

Yet none of this would be occurring if the Obama administration had followed Romney's plan to rely on private capital to restructure Chrysler. No one, least of all voters in Ohio, who have lived through the ups and downs of the auto industry, believes that Romney's plan would have resulted in anything except the liquidation of Chrysler.

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Chrysler's CEO Sergio Marchionne said that it would have been "impossible" for Chrysler to get financing from the private markets in 2009.

The court records are clear, too, but Romney wants voters to forget what Judge Arthur Gonzales said when finalizing Chrysler's restructuring plan: "The sale transaction is the only alternative to liquidation available to the debtors."

All of which has brought us to a truly Etch-a-Sketch moment, where Romney, knowing he is sunk if he admits that his plan would have forced Chrysler into liquidation, tries desperately to flip the script with a big lie about Jeep moving out of Toledo.

And, rather than take the opportunity to exhibit honesty and presidential character by correcting his misstatement, Romney doubled down with a misleading campaign spot about Jeep running in Ohio.

Using Chrysler to take on the Obama administration's results in saving the domestic auto industry is an odd choice. After all, the Chrysler restructuring has been a great success, starting with Chrysler having paid back all of its loans from the federal government six years ahead of schedule.

Just a few days ago, Chrysler reported that it had its best September sales in five years and that its third-quarter profit was up 80 percent over 2011. Since 2009, Chrysler has hired more than 7,000 workers in the United States and is hiring thousands more, starting with adding an additional shift at a plant in Detroit that builds the Jeep Grand Cherokee.

And while Mitt Romney sticks to his false Chrysler narrative, an even more damning story about the dirty dealing of Mitt Romney's investment partners during the 2009 restructuring of GM is beginning to emerge.

Mitt Romney and his partners made a killing on the GM bankruptcy by gaining control of bankrupt parts supplier Delphi, then threatening to withhold components critical to the production of GM vehicles. Romney's business partners were willing to force GM into liquidation and cause a national economic calamity unless they got more money. In the end, the Romney investor group got what it wanted and earned a profit of more than 3,000 percent on its initial investment.

This is the real Romney, a man who objected to the rescue of the domestic auto industry, then made astronomical profits after his business partners threatened the survival of GM. A man who lies about Chrysler moving jobs to China, when his history at Bain Capital, the private equity firm he founded, shows that he has invested in Chinese factories where workers are grossly exploited. Romney won't even act to stop the Sensata factory in Illinois, in which he is an investor, from closing the doors and moving to China the day before the election.

Mitt Romney won't come clean on Chrysler, won't come clean on his Chinese investments and threatened the restructuring of GM for his own profit. That is the picture of a me-first hedge-fund investor, not someone who has the judgment or character to be President of the United States.

Put him to death !

It was mass murder not a serial killing. Even if he had PTSD, killing many civilians with no immediate threat is unacceptable.

If true it is another positive contribution to life on Earth. Now, release him at once. I vouch for his character.

"WWII is the model for every war. So if someone is suffering from PTSD in Afghanistan they need to talk to a D-Day veteran because, again, everything went A-OK in WWII."

Well my grandfather was at the Battle of the Bulge and definitely suffered from PTSD. He came home to live a 'normal' life with a good job, wife and family but suffered/s from nightmares still to this day. He is 88 years old now and still has nightmares that wake him him throughout the night and you can hear him calling out in his sleep. He never talks about it like most from this greatest generation but my grandmother and father could tell you all about it. My other grandfather who was a Marine in WWII would never talk about his time in the war. Luckily neither of them became alcoholics but there were quite a few who did when they returned home to self medicate. They also typically served one tour where these guys today are serving longer than our grandparents/parents did during previous wars.

This article does not talk about how Bales (who worked in the financial industry and after 9/11 decided to enlist) had been wounded and suffered a Tramatic Brain Injury (TBI) and requested not to be sent back on his last tour to keep a job here. They SHOULD NEVER send a soldier back out who has sufferred a TBI especially not with in less than a year! The effects of TBI cannot be predicted and take a long time to heal if they are able to heal at all. I hope that he recieves a fair trial and the help he obviously needs but more importantly I hope that these official making these decisions are also held accountable in some way. I pray for his wife and children because they probably have lost the father/husband they knew even if he is able to ever return home.

My heart bleeds for this man. He has served 4 - thats 4 - tours of duty, how much carnage has he seen? (the article cites some, but how much more has he seen that is not printed here? I'd thinking way too much) How much so that it sent him over the edge? You folks here that are calling him a mass murderer and a serial killer, how many of YOU could survive 4 - thats 4 - tours of duty in a war zone and come out the other side sane? As for the 4 tours, how many of those were because it was his job, a job he took on to support his family, being the best one he could get in his home country's depressed economy? Shame on you who pass judgement without the facts. I'm, wiling to bet hard dollars that before his multiple deployments in a war zone, he was a happy, well adjusted man. I hope and pray that the Judge Advocat General mounts a hard defense, maybe with time in a place of healing to come back to his self.

Time for all the generals to stand down. Time to bring all our soldiers home from all the far flung countries. Let those countries earn - thats earn - their freedom and their opportunities of democracy. Time for our country to stop being the planets polieman.

Pray for peace

Of course, Bales must be held responsible for his actions. Tragically, this is not unlike what occurred in Viet Nam. The responsibility must be shared all around. I do not believe that this young man would normally commit these acts if he were not in the midst of another dirty little war.

IMHO, the death penalty is NOT warranted. He cracked and I don't think any one of us can predict how we would react to what our soldiers are exposed to.

It's a GDM tragedy all around, for those poor civilians, for him and his family and this country.

This case seems pretty cut and dry as in he did it, admitted he did it and now he must pay for his crimes because his actions were no better than those of a terrorist and for that reason he needed to pay with his life. He didn't kill soldiers he killed women and children so nothing of what he did helped advance the process of the war, if anything it simply made things worse for those poor souls that are still stuck there fighting. Shoot the guy and be done with it.

Maybe one American will be hanged for war crimes since only foreigners are ever accused and arrested. 60+ years of US hypocrites getting away with mass slaughters.

In the picture slideshow above (start it by clicking the picture of the police officer and detainee) look at picture 27. So cute. :)

Another sad case of soldiers who "snap" under the pressure of a war zone...

Time to raise as much hell as America did during the Viet Nam war... we have no business in any of those countries..

Well excuse me people since when is soldier made up of iron and not a human being. You all have forgoten that those people are killing the soldiers. Even though I disagree with what ex-president did, he did declare war on them and in war that is acepted especially when they are shooting at you. How many soldiers died over there in the name of peace, that should tell you something. I just hate those people over here that wants to get glory for a court marshal. Really stand behind the soldiers and not behind another person from another country. After all, SSG BALES is a citizen of the United States and not a citizen of afphanasten. You have the Prosecutor Lt. Col Jay Morse in the front line and we will see if he would not do the same. Its ease for LTC Morse to prosecute a fellow soldier just because he wants to look good infront of his peers. But to me and many other soldiers, what LTC Morse is doing is committing treason to the honor of the military.

If he really murdered unarmed men, women and children, he needs to be executed, end of story. Everything else is just a lot of BS.

STOP TO JUDGE! Dave Sharpe, hope for this soldier a fair trial; for sure this man is suffering deeply, he will never recover from all of that he has been going though, If he will sentence a death penalty or not, so you better have compassion. Same compassion that deserve the children and women involved in this tragedy. We need to pray for peace. A serial killers are those who are using children and women to making explote a suicede bombs. The consequences of the war, it is a Tragedy. Also , we need to pray for the wife and children of soldier Bales. God have mercy and compassion.